THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. 5 THE COLUMBIAN. "bloomsburg, ''pa. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1900. lntrri'rt at th Pout Ojtrr at Dlimtngburg, Pa. 0 riwi! clam mattrr, March 1, 1HSC. " TO EuiFoHlHERS. It is nearly a year since state ments have been sent out to our de linquent subscribers. Quite a large number have not paid yet for the past year, and some are behind several years. Statements will be mailed soon to all who owe lor a year or more. Those who dislike to be dunned can avoid it by paying tip soon. The price of newspaper has nearly doubled, but the subscrip tion price has not been advanced. This compels us to insist upon prompt payments, and we, there fore, request all subscribers know ing themselves to be in arrears, to make payment at an early date, tf Legal advertisements on page 7. . Ture drugs, of all kinds, at Mer cer's Drug & Book Store. - . The Winona base ball team has (lisbandoned on account of poor support. Take your wheel to the Blooms burg Cycle Works and get it re paired. . .. .. The Episcopalians of Mt. Carmel are having plans made for a new church. -- - Many a man owes his life's hap piuess to a woman who once refus ed to marry him. The Montour & Columbia Tele phone Company will establish an exchange at Millville. Catcher's mitts, fielder's gloves, bats, masks and all base ball goods, at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. John M. Garman writes home from Pikes Peak, says the Shick- shiuuy Echo, that he is wading in snow knee deep. . . The Bloomsburg Juniors suffered defeat at the hands of a ball club known as the "77's". at Danville Saturday afternoon. Score 15 to 5. Sit on your porches, by using the Bamboo porch screens. Com plete with poles and put up for 3 cents a foot, at S. R. Bidleman's book, wall paper and stationery store. 6-2 1 tf. There will be a campraeeting in Boone's grove near Espy, August 7 to 15, by the United Evangelical church. Good boarding house on the grounds. For information as to tents, etc., address Rev. S. S. Mumey, Espy, Pa. BICYCLES! Cleveland, - $40 to $75 Wolff-American, - 35 to 75 Reading, - - 25 to 40 Wira, - - - 25 v olvcnne, - - 25 Call and see samples. Second hand wheels for sale. LARGE LINE OF, BICYCLE SUNDRIES! AT LOWEST PRICES. Easy terms to buyers. W. S. Rishton, Ph. G. Ent Build' n. Jhatmaoist Telephone. iyfl The Newest and Best $3.00 Shoe for women. Light, flexible soles. Very Shapely and Easy. Name Stamped on Every Shoe. None genuine with out it. w. c. hTkTnney, 8 E. Main St. WANTED. A good team of working horses. Must be sound, and well broken. The Leader Store Co. LVn. Corner 4th & Market St., Bloomsburg. 6-21-tf . Leases and notices to quit, for sale at this office. tf. August 16th will be the twelfth . anniversary ot 1 Iieta Castle 276, ! Knights of the Golden Eagle, ot 1 Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer W. Kester, , of Mt. Tleasant township, were be I reft of an eleven -months-old daugh ' ter Saturday night last. Among the, Presbyterian Mission aries in the Shantung Province, iChina, who arc reported safe, are j Dr. and Mrs. James B. Neal. - - Nervousness is cured by making the blood rich and pure with Hood's Sarsaparilla. It gives the sweet, refreshing sleep of childhood. . The price of coffee has advanced half a cent a pound, and now board ing house guests will have more "grounds" for complaint than ever. " Boyd Ikeler's home in Mt. Plas ant township was struck by light ning and considerably damaged dur ing a heavy thunder storm Saturday night. . Peruna, Swamp-Root, Hood's Sarsaparilla, Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound, and all patent medi cines, at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. The cyclometer on J. M. Staver's automobile registers over 500 miles, most of which has been made in short drives around town and nearby. - July 24. of last year, John Reese, of Beach Haven, was bitten on the foot by a mad dog, and on Tuesday he died in terrible agony as the re sult of it. Mrs. William Shult. died after a lingering illness at her home in Madison township, Wednesday morning at a ripe old age. Her hus band has been dead for many years. The A. M. E. Campmeetiug will open at Hess Grove, Rupert, Sun day next. Able preachers will be in attendance throughout the entire meeting. The singing will be a feature S. F. Peacock has opened an of fice in L. N. Mover's building, sec ond floor. He is in the insurance business and a notary public, and is also Secretary of Rosemout Cem etery Co. The Rev. and Mrs. George E. Limbert spent Sunday in Orange ville. Rev. Limber, assisted in the opening exercises of the new Orangeville church Sunday morn ing. Danville News. James Scarlet, Esq., of Danville, will defend Arthur Brown, of Sun bury, who is charged with the mur der of Frederick Kline, by hitting him over the head with an iron pipe in Sunbury July 4th. Death, with its saddening influ ences, entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, of Millville, on Saturday evening last, and re moved therefrom their little daugh ter, Ethel, aged one year and one mouth. Mrs. Jacob Kline of Fishingcreek township, was taken to the Danville Hospital on Tuesday by J. A. Karus and J. F. Hess. On the day previous her husband was taken to the same institution by Sheriff Black. . . . J. G. Wells has nut some hand some show cases in his hardware store. His stock has been over hauled and rearranged, and he is offering certain lines of goods very cheap to close them out. Take a look at his bargain tables. Keep in mind the Silk Mill Ex cursion to Milton Park on August 18th. . Bryan buttons are becoming numerous on the coat lapels of our residents. 1 Prof. Brooks of this town has been secured as instructor of a new band recently organized at Lime Ridge. . ... , The residence ol the late Mrs. M. Louisa Schuyler on Market street was sold at public sale on Monday for $2800. The property was struck down to J. R. Schuyler. . It has been definitely decided that Susquehanna University will remain in Selinsgrove. A new building will be erected, work on which will soon be commenced. The towns along the line of the Bloomsburg & Sullivan, contribut ed largely to the P. O. S. of A. pic nic to Star Island Park on Satur day, which aided materially in making the excursion a success. The recruiting station for the reg ular array which has been in Bloomsburg for the past month, has been removed toScranton. Six re cruits were obtained here. A num ber of applicants failed to pass the physical examination. . .. Dr. aud Mrs. W. II. Purman are out on a pleasure trip. They are driving through the several sur rounding counties. The benefits to be derived from such an outing are said to be many. The doctor's health is steadily improving. The Columbia County W. C. T. U. Executive Committee meets at Lightstreet next Thursday, the 26th, at 1:30 p. m., in the M. E. Church. A full attendance is de sired by the Piesident, as arrange ments will be made for the coming convention. The Girton family re-uuioi; will be held in Hess' Grove, Rupert, Thursdiy, August 9. All the Gir tons and their irieuds are invited to be present. Should it rain on Thursday the re-union will be held on Friday. S. J. Johnson, Sec'y. A new post office order will allow carriers to work more than eight hours per week. Heretofore when a carrier's eight hours .were up he took what mail he had not deliver eb, back to ihe post office. Under the new rule he will deliver all his mail. John Cyle, of Berwick, the small boy admitted to the State Hospital at Hazleton about two weeks ago, had his leg amputated Friday. The little fellow fell some weeks ago, badly bruising his leg. Every effort was made to save it but it was im possible. The boy will recover. The price paid to the huckleberry pickers has now reached rock bot tom three cents per quart. The crop seems to be fairly large, but the pickers this year are scarce, due to the small price paid. At three cents a quart the berries are scarcely worth gathering. Hazleton Stand ard. The picnic of the employees of the Bloomsburg bilk Mill, to be held at Milton Park, Saturday, August iS, will be the largest of the season. The distance to be traveled is short which, of course, makes the fare low, and this will attract the people. Metherell's orchestra will accompany the picnic and furnish music for dancing. The Winona Fire Company is preparing for its second annual theatrical appearance. The boys will hold the boards at the local play house Tuesday evening Oct ober 9. The offering this year is an exceptionally strong one. The latest popular songs will be featured with large colored pictures from life. People may question the methods and work of the Salvation Army and then scoff at its converts, but just the same it takes more courage for a young man to break away from his evil associates and engage in the street services, when a half dozen or more of his old cronies are jeering at him, than it does for a general, back in the rear, in a place of safety, to tell a thousand soldiers where and how to fight. The "Farm Journal" is 23 years old, prints 40 tons of paper a month, aud is out of debt ; has a new press that will print 100 pa pers a nr'nute ; it is cut to fit every progressive farmer and villager. Don't you want this fine little pa per ? Now we have a clubbing ar rangement with the "Farm Jour nal',' by which, if you pay in ad vance, you can have the Colum bian one year and the "Farm Journal" nearly five years, remain der of 1900, and all of 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904. all for $1.00. Did you ever hear of such an offer ? PURELY PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Samuel llloch of Danville, pent Sunday in town. Mrs. V. Y. Cospcr ami family of I'ittston, are visiting at O. W. Corrcll's. George Hummer of Jaminon City, attend ed to business in town Monday. Frank Tierncy, of Wilkcs-Harrc, is spend ing a week's vacation with his mother. William S. Moyer and daughter Miss Martha are home from Highland Lake. Miss bertha Grcatrex of Iron street, is visiting with relatives in Youngsville, New York. J, IC. Roys will go to Tunknannock to. morrow, where his wife and daughter are visiting. Miss Edna Wilson and Miss Annie Eyer have returned home from a visit with friends In Ohio. Rev. J. D. Thomas, pastor of the Re formed Church, is spending a month's vaca tion in Ohio, , Deforest Hummer was a guest Tuesday and Wednesday at Camp Idleness, above Orangeville. Mrs. Judge Klwell and grandson, I'.lwell Funk, are spending several weeks at Sayre and Towanda. Henry Ohl spent Sunday with his son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Pot ter, at Millville. John McDowell of New York City, is en joying his annual vacation visiting relatives in Light Street. Miss Margaret Ilidlay is spending her vacation with her sister, Mrs. Drum, in Center township. Mrs. K. R. Drinker and daughter, Miss Lydia, have gone to Bailey's Island, off the New England coast. Mrs. Ilcnj. H. Vannatta. of Blair County is the guest of Mr. Vannatta's mother and sisters on Iron Street. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Oidding and Warren Gidding, of New York, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. 13. A. Gidding yesterday. Miss Bertha Hagenbuch has returned home after an absence of ten days, during which time she visited relatives at Hamburg. Miss Bessie Hendershott returned home on Monday from Philadelphia, where she had spent the past month with relatives. Harry Houck of the Internal Revenue Of fice, Scranton, spent Sunday in town. He was a pleasant caller at our office on Mon day. Miles and Hiram Albcrtson, with their families are visiting relatives at Rohrsburg. Miles resides in Georgia and Hiram in Miss issippi. S. C- Brown returned from "Camp Idle ness" yesterday afternoon lie reports all the camptrs healthy ami happy. He will return to camp next week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Unangst, of New York, after spending ten days here with re. latives, left on Wednesday for Loon Lakr in the Adirondacks, where they will spend part of the sum ncr. Trof. George E. Wilbur was a Shickshinny visitor Monday. Prof. Wilbur came up from Bloomsburg in the interest of the Royal Ar canum, hoping to effect an organization here. Shickshinny Echo. Miss Annie Hassert departed yesterday for Kingston, where she will visit her sister, Mrs. Edward Sleppy for a few days. She will also visit another sister, Mrs. Erath in Wilkesbarre, before returning home. Rev. Father McCann, formerly of St. Columba's Catholic Church, this town, now at Locust Gap, assisted in the confirmation of a class of two hundred, at St. Ignatius' Church, Centialia, Sunday afternoon. R. B. Grotz and William Hoffman accom panied the I'. O. S. of A. picnic to Star Is land Park on Saturday. They took advant age of the opportunity offered and remained in Williamsport wiih friends over Sunday. Mrs. Clark Brown and daughter, Mrs. Grier Quick left last Thursday for Easton, where they will visit for several days. They will ther. continue their journey on to Jersey City, N. J., where they will be the guests of Frank S. Brown for a week. Druggist W. K. Armstrong, Mrs. Arm strong and daughter, Martha, will spend a week or two at the seashore. During Mr. Armstrong's absence the store will oe in carge of Robert Mervine, an experienced and reliable pharmacist. "Milton Record." Miss Mary Clark went to New York on Tuesday, and there met her sister Miss Martha, who has been spending the past week with Mrs. Dr. E. F. Smith. They went from there to Bailey's Island off the coast of Maine, where they will spend a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. II. F. Sharpiess of Pueblo, Colorado, who have been visiting the form er's relatives here for more than a month de parted on Monday for New York City. Mrs. Sharpless will go to Paris to visit the Ex position, and Mr, Sharpless will spend some time at Ocean Grove. Dr. E. F. Smith and Dr, Schierge of New York City, arrived in Bloomsburg last Fri day on a bicycle tour, and spent Saturday calling on friends here. They rode from New York to Trenton, thence Kb Ihiladel phia, and up through Reading. They left here on Sunday morning, expecting to reach Scranton by evening and thence by Delaware Water Gap back to New York. The ex tremely warm weather forced them to take advantage of railroad facilities for a goodly portion of their trip. Anthony Conroy, a lunatic es caped from the Danville Asylum on Wednesday of last week, and is still hiding in the mountains. On Jan uary 31st of the present year, he criminally assaulted 15 year old Mary Kreitzer in a restaurant at Sunbury, for which he was arrest ed, given a hearing and sent to jail. At a subsequent term ot court he was adjudged insane by a jury of twelve men and sent to the asylum. Conroy is about 28 years of age, clean shaven, 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 140 pounds. CONSUMPTION never stops because the weather to warm. Then why stop taking SCOTT'S EMULSION simply because it's summer? Keep taking it It will heal your lungs, and make them strong for another winter. 50c. and Si. oot aUdrunrUts. Clarks 1 Store 5 Friday, July 27th, 1900. The CLEAN-UP-SALE offers you attractive bar- gains, in many lines of goods, at greatly reduced prices. 5 They must move out, as fall goods are coming in now WASH DRESS GOODS. We call attention to these again, as this is just the time you need them most, and they are cheaper now. See them. 20c Dimities, clean-up price, I2jc. 15c Organdies, clean-up price, 8c yard. 40c Printed Swisses, now 1 6c yard. Plain Colored Ducks now 9c 15c Printed Piques, now 9c Fine Dress Ginghams, 8c. Plaid Madras Cloths now 20c. Fine Madras Cloth, 12c yd. Fine Denims, 10c yd. SUMMER CORSETS. WAISTS Our N. H. Corset, lace trimmed, top and bottom, exactly like dollar goods, only not so well boned, at 50c each. Our medium Summer Cor set, 50c. Batiste Corsets, $1 00. R. & G. Corsets, 1 00. High Bust " 1 00. Bust Forms, Bustles, Corset Shields, Stays, &c. KNITTED UNDERWEAR. Knit Corset Covers, 25c. (WELL OXFORD. No shoe ever made has the style and beauty of the PATENT KID OXFORD. It makes any foot look attractive and a pretty foot all the prettier. It is delightfully easy and gives excel lent service. Other styles for all Queen Quality 'roun! wear, golf ing. vviiccini. rur an OXFORDS useSj aii occasions. T icrht and V XS. Graceful GEO. "W It isn't the o 3 goes into watch that o o (-1 o fect job-it is that does the business. Any bungler can buy the fine kinds of material that I use in repairing j but skill is the most valuable material that can be used in watch repairing j and the bungler can buy IT. 1 sell my skill for what it is worth, and it will cost you less than bungling at a lower price. o S3 HT?C W TJ ITQQ Jeweler and Optician, VJHAJ. W. XlJlirOio, BLOOMSBURG, PENN'A. HIE OPTICAL 0D M Consult a reliable Optician about that eye trouble of yours. Doing without glasses, or wearing those not suited to you, are equally injurious in certain cases. Eyes Examined Free, When glasses are fitted. You will find all styles and prices here. I guarantee to give satisfaction in every case, or money refunded. 0" LEE ILVCA-IRTIIfcT JEWELER AND HEFU ACTING OPTICIAN, 45 West Main Street, - - BLOOMSBU RG, PA First-c'ass watch nrd jewelry repairing. Talk, Knit Drawers.lace trimmed 25c. Knit Vest, tape neck and sleeves, ioc. Knit Vests, short sleeve, 1 oc Silk Vests, 50c. Men's Balbriggan, 50c. Children's Vests, ioc. CORSET COVERS. In Cambric and Muslin. All styles, all prices. NEW FALL DRESS GOODS. Here they are, in the newest and popular shades and fabrics. Early buyers have the chance of selecting now. If you want a dress or a separate skirt, we have the materials, just from the looms, and the prices will )lease you. They came a ittle early, but cash was wanted. So you save a little by our purchase for cash. 52 in. all wool Homespun, 75c. 45 in. pure Mohair. 87JC. 45 in. sponged Zibeline,58c 40 in. all wool " 50c 52 in. all wool Black Chev iot, sponged and shrunk, special value, at 80c. yd. H. J. CLARK & SON. $250F.D.DENTLER SOLE AGENT. Fa. HESS. material that !S5 o your repaired -3 o ' o tr o 13 CD o results in a per the know-how p CO
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